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The interesting bit is not that it remains there, but that it seems to generate dark images (gore, violence) regardless of the input.

by ddalex 4y ago

vlunkr 4y ago
I know very little about this stuff, but doesn’t that just mean that the algorithm considers the original image to contain gore/violence?
- nerdponx 4y ago
  It at least considers the original image adjacent to gore/violence, but there's something uncanny about how the "Loab" image itself is not a gory or violent image. There's something funky going on along a "concept axis" involving the upside-down triangles on the face, the rosacea, and the overall bleak composition of the image.
  - towaway15463 4y ago
    The image looks a lot like the haggard female protagonists or victims in a lot of horror movies so it could just be a composite of those. The rosacea might be due to it confusing blood splattered faces with medical images. Honestly it just looks like a still image from a horror trailer to me.
nerdponx 4y ago
I think it is somewhat interesting that it remains there, apparently after many many "generations" of combining with other images. It's also interesting to consider what this image was originally "far" away from. There are a couple of good followup threads exploring how such a thing might come about in the "latent space" of the model: https://twitter.com/jthteo/status/1567418273628655617 https://twitter.com/jthteo/status/1567418273628655617 https://twitter.com/mattskala/status/1567300206969982979 https://twitter.com/mattskala/status/1567300206969982979
- scambier 4y ago
  For me it kinda makes sense: the portrait/person is an important feature of the image, so it's heavily weighted in the generation, producing another image with that portrait/person, and so on. I find it more interesting that the visage itself is still recognizable between generations, as if it's not "any person", but a very specific visage.
kamranjon 4y ago
Isn’t this just a result of the negative weights?

The interesting bit is not that it remains there, but that it seems to generate dark images (gore, violence) regardless of the input.

by ddalex 4y ago

The interesting bit is not that it remains there, but that it seems to generate dark images (gore, violence) regardless of the input.

vlunkr 4y ago

I know very little about this stuff, but doesn’t that just mean that the algorithm considers the original image to contain gore/violence?

nerdponx 4y ago
It at least considers the original image adjacent to gore/violence, but there's something uncanny about how the "Loab" image itself is not a gory or violent image. There's something funky going on along a "concept axis" involving the upside-down triangles on the face, the rosacea, and the overall bleak composition of the image.
- towaway15463 4y ago
  The image looks a lot like the haggard female protagonists or victims in a lot of horror movies so it could just be a composite of those. The rosacea might be due to it confusing blood splattered faces with medical images. Honestly it just looks like a still image from a horror trailer to me.

nerdponx 4y ago

I think it is somewhat interesting that it remains there, apparently after many many "generations" of combining with other images. It's also interesting to consider what this image was originally "far" away from. There are a couple of good followup threads exploring how such a thing might come about in the "latent space" of the model: https://twitter.com/jthteo/status/1567418273628655617 https://twitter.com/jthteo/status/1567418273628655617 https://twitter.com/mattskala/status/1567300206969982979 https://twitter.com/mattskala/status/1567300206969982979

scambier 4y ago
For me it kinda makes sense: the portrait/person is an important feature of the image, so it's heavily weighted in the generation, producing another image with that portrait/person, and so on. I find it more interesting that the visage itself is still recognizable between generations, as if it's not "any person", but a very specific visage.

kamranjon 4y ago

Isn’t this just a result of the negative weights?